New Year’s Eve, Adventures in the Asian District, and Ziggy Tales

It’s New Year’s Eve! Almost time to start putting away the Christmas decorations until next year. I wish I didn’t have to say good-bye to my collection of nutcrackers though. Today’s the last day of 2014 and all in all it’s been a pretty great year! It was my last year of elementary school. My family went on vacation to New Orleans and Disney World. So awesome! I started the dreaded middle school and it hasn’t been that bad. I turned twelve. I changed dance schools and I got a part in the ballet company’s production of The Nutcracker. I am excited about 2015 and all the good things to come.

Well, ever since we went to Epcot at Disney World this summer, I have been interested in Asian snacks, mostly Japanese snacks. I asked for a lot of different Japanese candies that I saw on Amazon for Christmas and my sister, Ashley, bought me a bunch of it for my present. Some of it was good, like the green tea Kit Kats. They taste just like the green tea lattes that my mom gets from Starbucks. Yum! Some of it was meh. But, it just made me want to try more of it. Have you ever had dried seaweed or shrimp crackers? What about dried squid? So, ever since last week, I’ve been begging my parents to take me to a couple of grocery stores in the Asian District of the city where we live. Today, my mom worked half a day and when she got home, my mom and dad took my brother and me to get some candy. We didn’t spend very much money at all, but we got a lot of stuff, and I found more Kit Kats. I also realized that I could read the ingredient and nutrition labels because they are in English!

Finally, I wanted to tell you about Ziggy. He’s been quite a good dog since I’ve been sick. He’s even taken to sleeping at the foot of my bed. I think he was being extra nice to me because he knew I had the flu. Well, the other morning when I was still out of it from being sick, I went to feed him his breakfast. He eats Cesar dog food. I took it out of the can, plopped it in his bowl, and went back to bed. Pretty soon, I heard dad calling me. He sounded mad. Oops! I forgot to break up Ziggy’s food. So, he picked up the entire square shaped, wet dog food, put it in his mouth like a sandwich, and proceeded to take it over to the carpet to chew pieces off of it. Dad was mad about the dog food grease that Ziggy got on the carpet. So there goes another one of Ziggy’s Tales. The moral of the story is: remember to break up the dog’s food or he’ll think it’s a burrito and carry it away from his bowl.